Thursday, Danita decided to walk to Target, use a coupon, and get a Target plastic bag. (They cost $.05, but they’re really good for small trash cans, and buying a box of small trash bags is $0.10 per bag.) She stepped of a curb in a perfectly normal way and experienced extreme pain in one knee, radiating down her leg. She called me. I was on my bike, about half an hour from home. I picked her up and she iced it all afternoon. She was having a very difficult time hobbling around with a cane. The next day, we saw the doctor. He said it was almost certainly soft tissue damage. We got an X-ray just to make sure, got her a knee brace, picked up some prescription strength Motrin, made a Physical Therapy appointment, and borrowed a rollator from our neighbor. (I remember the days when many of our friends had babies, and baby paraphernalia flowed around the neighborhood. It seems there is a parallel for us seniors.) Danita has been very good about staying off her feet. She is already on the mend. But it will be a while before she’s up and around.

Normally, we like to go downstairs to watch TV for a couple of hours in the evening as we unwind and prepare for bed. Stairs are out of the question for Danita, so I moved the TV from the guest bedroom to the living room. It’s one of the first affordable “1024p” big-screen TVs. It’s heavy beast. I got it downstairs undamaged. It will be a good trick getting it back upstairs later on. I had everything wired up and working in less than an hour, which included an uncounted number of trips upstairs and downstairs to grab just one more thing I hadn’t though of. Right now the TV is sitting proudly smack dab in the center of the space between our two sofas.

Of course we had to keep up with our important activities. We had a gelato food truck Thursday. Danita authorized me to get any flavors I thought she would enjoy. I didn’t hear any complaints. Friday was a neighborhood party featuring savory and sweet pies. This was the very first time I drove to the clubhouse to attend a party. The rollator was very helpful getting Danita to a table. I was the only person who went through the buffet holding two plates.

Danita’s feeling good enough that we plan to attend a jazz trio concert tomorrow at UMBC.

I was planning to write this blog on Monday. For the last month, I’ve been working on a really cool update to our Residents database. Installation will take quite a while as I will have to review nearly 300 pages of pool passes to make sure everything is perfect. This was a great weekend to do the installation because our staff is in mandatory training Monday. I have three days to do the work. Unfortunately, they changed their password and didn’t tell me. But now I have more time to do cool things like writing blogs.

I hope this finds everybody doing well.